Roberto Preatoni arrested in Italy

Calling all security bloggers! We need to look into the Roberto case! 

Background:

I read the news about Roberto Preatoni over at the Sunbelt blog today. And I just have to make some comments. 

Alex has a nice writeup on the background on Roberto. And he use the background as proof that Roberto is clean. 

Let us take a look at the news side of things:

• Roberto is arrested by Italian police on spy charges
  
• He was hired by Telecom Italy to test their security
  
• His team decided to sip from the bowl, and 4 where arrested and charged with spy charges in January 2007 (they intercepted and hacked into communication of some quite prominent people)
  
• Italy is a country where media, politics, power and criminals/mafia walks hand-in-hand

In other words, if you mess things up, or create enemies at the wrong places, you are likely to get arrested. And if arrested, your rights are not the best anymore.

Anyway. Even in Italy, the police do follow rules, and they are not likely to fabricate evidence. Thus, Roberto most likely made a mistake - or did what they are accusing him of.

The challenge for the rest of us now is to filter out the relevant information. And keep the good work of Roberto alive. And hope he is wrongly accused and soon to be released. 

Just imagine how it would be to be in his shoes now. Working as he was for the good side (no evidence exists that he worked for the foes, as far as I know).

And suddenly he gets arrested. 

Let us help Roberto back out of jail. Together, there are many security bloggers out there - I bet some of you even know Roberto. Let us find out what is going on, and how we can help him!